Transfer Hi8, Video8, Digital8 Tapes

With the popularity of 8mm video cameras our Denver DVD Your Memories location is the place to bring all of your varying formats of these tapes. We are able to transfer all formats of 8mm video out there, including Hi-8, Video-8, and Digital-8 video cassettes onto our 100-year archival quality DVD’s so that you may share your memories for decades to come.

Tape Repair Service is only $30 per tape. Re-splicing the tape and replacing the cassette shell when necessary are included in this service. Repaired tapes must go through our tape transfer service after the repair has finished. Visit our Video Tape Repair page for more information. Got a simple fix? Check out our Video Tape Repair Guide.

Extra Copies

Sharing your memories with others? We provide extra CD/DVD copies packaged and ready for only $10 each, and Blu-ray copies for $20 each.

$10 per CD/DVD

$20 per Blu-ray disc

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Upgrade to Blu-ray

Upgrade to Blu-ray and experience the future of family media! For more information about transferring your video tapes to Blu-ray, please visit our Blu-ray transfer page.

Edit Your Old Home Movies!

Do your old home videos have footage you would like to take out? Or maybe you want to make a highlight video of your daughter's dance performances? Work with one of our professional editors one-on-one to make the perfect custom movie. It's quick and less expensive than you think!

$40 per half hour

Tape Repair Service

Tape Repair Service is only $30 per tape. Re-splicing the tape and replacing the cassette shell when necessary are included in this service. Repaired tapes must go through our tape transfer service after the repair has finished. Got a simple fix? Check out our Video Tape Repair Guide.

$30 per tape

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8811 E. Hampden Avenue,
Denver, CO 80231

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(303) 221-2720

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Geek Corner

8mm Tape Transfer

Hi8, Video8, Digital 8 Tape Formats

The 8mm video format was released by Sony in 1985, in effort to gain foothold in the consumer camcorder & home movie market that had been dominated by the VHS tape since the late 70s. In 1985, Sony released the Handycam, which was a huge success, mostly due to the fact that it was substantially smaller than the VHS or Betamax camcorders of the time.

Over the years, three formats of 8mm tapes were released. The first format, simply called 8mm, or video 8, was entirely analog. The 8mm tape width was chosen as a smaller version of the 12mm Betamax format, and used a similar tape loading technology. This was followed by the Hi8, which was a 8mm cassette with improved resolution. Some professional Hi8 equipment could store additional digital stereo PCM sound on a special reserved track, even though it was analog. Digital8 is the most recent format of the 8mm cassette family. Digital8 is recorded entirely in digital DV format, which is very different than that of Video8 or Hi8 tapes.

The common capacities of the tapes varied. Video8 and Hi8 generally came in 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes cassettes. Digital8 tapes typically held a recording capacity of either 30 or 60 minutes.

Combining Multiple Video 8 Tapes to DVD

When bringing us multiple tapes, you also have the option of combining your hi8 and video8 tapes onto one or multiple DVDs, at no extra cost. Combining several shorter tapes onto one DVD will save you the hassle of having several short-duration DVDs laying around. This can also be useful for combining multiple tapes of similar subject manner, such as transferring all of your children’s birthday party videos onto a birthday DVD compilation. The only limitation is that our 100-year archival DVDs will hold up to 2 hours of video, so each combined video must have an average run time of one hour or less.

DVD Compatibility

At DVD Your Memories, we use only the highest quality 100-year archival DVDs for transferring your precious videos to DVD. We are so confident that our video to DVDs will work for you that we offer compatibility guarantee on all of our video to DVD transfers! Never again worry about your old DVD player, or a disc read error! All of our discs are guaranteed to work for your television and your home DVD player.

Transferring to Hard Drive Option

Transferring your video to hard drive is recommended if you are going to edit your footage. The file type is NTSC DV AVI, the most standard format across all video editing platforms. Hard drives can be PC or Mac formatted and the file format is AVI DV with each hour of video taking up 13 gigabytes.

If you are going to purchase a hard drive through DVD Your Memories, we will recommend a certain size based on the total length of your video transfer footage. If you are going to bring in a drive, please understand the space requirements and plan accordingly. Also we recommend bringing in a new drive, but if you would like to bring in a drive that has data on, we will ask that you sign a data-loss waiver. We’ve never lost data on a hard drive, but the possibility always exists.

Editing

With every order, we will crop out any blank footage found at the beginning and end of your tapes. We also provide additional basic editing services available to all of our video to DVD transfer services. Add an extra touch to your finished DVD by taking advantage of some simple basic edits.

With basic editing you can crop out as much unwanted footage from your tapes as you wish. This is especially helpful if you have long running tapes with only a few sections you’d like transferred. With basic editing you can crop out all of the unwanted material, which leaves you with only the stuff you want on your final DVD.

If you have several tapes with short clips on each, you can now combine all of the clips you need onto one DVD movie. Our editing service will allow you to pull any amount of footage from your tapes and consolidate them onto a DVD for easy viewing.

Remove commercials from your recorded television programs. Remove those annoying old commerical breaks from your video tapes, and watch your old programs seamlessly on your new DVD. This is great for special television specials such as sports entertainment, politics, and news footage.

Have you ever wanted to combine your tapes with other media? We can actually take your video tapes and combine them with photos, slides, negatives, and film to give a much more professional look to your DVD.

Editing From DVDs?

Many customers ask us if they can edit the video footage if we make them DVD movies. The simple answer is no. The complete answer is yes, almost anything is possible if you are an advanced computer user, but for many reasons it is not advisable to do so. The main reason is that you would be working with highly compressed video.

If you transfer the data from the DVD to the computer for editing, the quality is not the same as that of the originally uncompressed video used to create the DVD. It also takes a lot of processing power to edit the compressed video, and although you can fix this problem by converting it to a less compressed video format (such as AVI), you will still see a quality loss. Also when you re-render that video that has previously been on a DVD it will recompress again and you will notice more than a little loss of detail.

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Areas Served

DVD Your Memories provides local Hi8 to DVD services for these and other nearby Denver areas: